[78-L] Columbia classics

[DAVID BURNHAM]

Checked card index and found that of first 200 classical alba, 20 are US:


32  Sonata 3 (Chopin)  Gringer
36  Brahms Son 2, Seidel & Loesser
37  Brahms  Piano son 3  Grainger
38  Beethoven  Cello son op.69  Salmond & Rumshisky
69  Haydn Qt op.54/2  Musical Art Qt
74  Ravel  Ma mere  Damrosch
78  Grieg Cello son  Saslmond/Rumshisky
82  Brahms Sym 2  Damrosch
86  Schubert Qt op.29  Musical Art  Qt
96  Schubert  Qt.op125/2
102 Schumann  works  Grainger
107 Smetana Trio  Malkin
127 Grieg Violin son 3  Seidel & Loesser
140 Brahms  Violin son 2  Zimbalist & Kauffmann
155 Brahms  Violin son 1  Seidel & Loesser
166 something perf by Grainger-can't read my notes
191 Harris  Sym 1933  Koussevitzky
198 Brahms Pno Qnt,op.60  Cumpson etal
200 Bach by Cumpson

Possibly there are also US recordings in the Modern Music series [quincy Porter comes to mind], also some of the 2disc rec's that later became X
sets.  Idid not search these, so they might affect to percentage summat.

All these I've had or heard sound fine; it's only with the war and postwar rec's of Stoky, Mitropoulos, Rodzinsky and Reiner that DH goes on about the
wretched sound.

Mike in Plovdiv

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Of these, only three appear to be orchestral, (the main object of my criticism), and I haven't heard any of them.  dl has commented on the Koussevitzky but I would like to find the others.

db

P.S.  I may have missed some discussion on this or other postings which I made because digest number "78-L Digest, Vol 16, Issue 124" never reached me.